You decide what your team builds next, and you're accountable for the value each sprint delivers. You own one ordered backlog: for a project team, the strategic project's backlog; for a Home Team, its Discretionary and Run backlog.
Responsibilities
- Order the backlog, so the most valuable work is always at the top.
- Write and agree acceptance criteria, and get two sprints of work ready through refinement.
- Propose the sprint goal, and decide sprint scope changes when Run work interrupts.
- Accept or reject work at the sprint review, against the Definition of Done.
- On a Home Team: agree the Run allowance and the Discretionary share in capacity planning, and order reliability actions from incidents and Platform Health reviews.
Where you show up
Change: Delivery. This is your home. You lead the content of sprint planning, refinement and the sprint review.
Change: Planning. You confirm your team's capacity, check the milestone plan is realistic, and break the first milestone into backlog items. At Quarterly Planning, you present your Home Team's Discretionary priorities.
Change: Discovery. You join the high-level design review and T-shirt estimation for ideas that touch your platforms.
Run. Actions from post-incident reviews and Platform Health reviews land in your backlog. The error budget rule tells you when reliability work goes first.
Your top tasks
- Refine the backlog mid-sprint, every sprint.
- Run a sprint planning session with your Scrum Master.
- Run the sprint review and change the backlog based on the feedback.
- Set goals and milestones with your Project Manager each quarter.
Who you work with most
- The Scrum Master of your team, as co-lead of every sprint event.
- The Product Manager, who owns the outcome your backlog serves.
- The Project Manager, on strategic projects, who owns the milestone plan your sprints deliver.